Sentences with phrase «constitutional affairs when»

I testified before the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs when the Senate considered the bill C - 25 - suffice it to say that I did not support the legislation.

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In 2001, she was appointed Solicitor General for England and Wales, serving until 2005 when she became Minister of State for Constitutional Affairs.

The Chairman of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee of Parliament, Ben Abdallah has assured Ghanaians that the Bill setting up the Office of Special Prosecutor will be ready by October 4 when Parliament resumes sitting.

18 September 2003: Britain's first constitutional affairs secretary, and likely last lord chancellor, Lord Falconer, announces government plans to expel the remaining 92 hereditary peers from the upper house «when parliamentary time allows» and strip anyone who has ever committed a criminal offence, including Archer, of their peerages.

Election Day next month is shaping up to be a comparatively sleepy affair statewide, as ballot propositions for constitutional amendments, along with whether to hold a constitutional constitutional, the only issues all New Yorkers will face when they head to booth.

Occupy Ghana, which has been strong advocates for the passage of the Right To Information Bill, has called on the government to provide dates on when it will «publish and gazette the Bill,» on when the «bill shall be tabled for debate in Parliament» and finally on when «the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary affairs shall conclude its deliberations on the Bill.»

When the previous government announced it was appealing against the European Court's original ruling in 2005, the Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, Lord Firkin, said: «It has been the view of successive governments, including this government, that persons who have committed crimes serious enough to warrant a custodial sentence should forfeit the right to have a say in how the country is governed while they are detained.»

A Ranking Member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Inusah Fuseini has downplayed the possibility of the Right to Information (RTI) bill being passed before Friday when Parliament rises for recess.

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee was set up in 2010 when Nick Clegg's portfolio of constitutional affairs was moved from the Ministry of Justice into the CConstitutional Reform Committee was set up in 2010 when Nick Clegg's portfolio of constitutional affairs was moved from the Ministry of Justice into the Cconstitutional affairs was moved from the Ministry of Justice into the Cabinet Office.

Former Vice Chairperson on Parliament's Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, George Loh, has accused the Majority Leader of Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah - Bonsu, of obstructing the passage of the Right to Information Bill (RTI) when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was in power.

Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Ben Abdallah Banda said, «When we met, the committee came to the agreement that given the interest that the public has in the bill, we can not take it under the certificate of urgency, and therefore the committee recommended to take it through the normal legislative process.»

Only a few days after the Court of Justice of the European Union buried the hatchet in the so - called Taricco saga, the Italian Constitutional Court issued a decision that may inaugurate the most significant shift of its jurisprudence in European affairs since 1984, when the Constitutional Court fully accepted the principle of primacy of EU law and blessed the disapplication of national legislation incompatible with EU law.

When considered in conjunction with Chapter 2 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Report 2009 and the Senate's Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee's 2013 Report titled «Value of a justice reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia», we will understand that solutions are within our grasp if politicians have the courage and willingness to embrace them.